User manual ULEAD DVD MOVIEFACTORY 2

[. . . ] November 2002 Copyright First English edition for Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2. 0. All Rights Reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without the express written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc. Software license The software described in this document is furnished under a License Agreement which is included with the product. This agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product. [. . . ] This feature is particularly useful when you want to attract your viewers by giving them the freedom to choose a particular part of the movie to watch. Note that these small video thumbnails only link to its "mother" video without generating any additional physical video files. So, you don't need to worry about the possibility of unexpected file size increase. Notes: · · You can create up to 99 chapters for a video clip. If the Create menu option is not selected, you will be guided to the Preview step immediately without creating any menus after clicking Next. Creating or editing chapters linked to a video clip: 1 Select a video in the Media clip list. 3 Click Auto to let Ulead MovieFactory help you select chapters (such as at fixed intervals), or drag the Jog Bar to move to a scene as the first frame of a chapter, and then click Add. Tips: · If you want to use Auto, your video must be at least one minute long or the video has scene change information. · If you click Auto and your video is a DV-formatted AVI file captured from a DV camcorder, DVD MovieFactory can automatically detect scene changes and add chapters accordingly. · If the selected video is an MPEG-2 file with scene change information, DVD MovieFactory automatically generates these chapters for you when you click Auto. 4 Repeat Step 3 as needed. You can also use Remove or Remove All to delete unwanted chapters. 5 Click OK. 12 Setup menus At this step, you can create the main menu and submenus. They provide a list of interactive thumbnail-styled options displayed on a screen for your movie viewer to choose from. Ulead DVD MovieFactory offers a set of menu templates to best fit the purpose of each menu. Custom-made menus are also available at your fingertips. To help you better understand the DVD/SVCD/VCD menu structure, see the illustration below. Menu heading Clip 1 Clip 1 description Submenu #1 heading Chapter 1 Chapter 1 description Chapter 2 Chapter 2 description Submenu #1 Chapter 3 Chapter 3 description Clip 2 Clip 2 description Main menu Clip 3 Clip 3 description Submenu #2 heading Chapter 1 Chapter 1 description Chapter 2 Chapter 2 description Submenu #2 In this example, Clip 1 has three chapters so when you click the Clip 1 video thumbnail, it will jump to submenu #1. If you look at Clip 2, it has no chapters assigned to it therefore there is no submenu for Clip 2. Editing menus: 1 By default, DVD MovieFactory automatically makes all required menus for you. Use Current displayed menu to switch to the menu you want to edit. 2 Click "My Title" to customize the menu heading. You can also click the text description under each video thumbnail for customization. Note: If you skip Step 2, "My Title" and the thumbnail name will be used as the menu heading and the text description respectively. If you don't want to show the menu heading or the text description, simply delete it. 13 3 To change the image shown on each video thumbnail, click it then drag the Jog Bar to change. 4 To change a menu layout, use the Menu template list and select another preset. 5 You can also click own background image, or click to use your background music. 6 To further customize and create your own menu template in the My Favorites folder, click . 7 When you're done, click Next to preview the movie. [. . . ] DVD Its full name is "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc. " This is an optical disc that can store data, music, or movie with a better quality than VCD and SVCD. DVD+R/RW A DVD storage format used to record DVD once (DVD+R) or multiple times (DVD+RW). This format is promoted by the DVD+RW Alliance (http://www. dvdrw. com/). DVD-R/RW A DVD storage format used to record DVD once only (DVD-R), or about 1, 000 times of rewrites (DVD-RW). [. . . ]